Hi, I have a Model WH-003510 St. Croix Auburn pellet stove that was manufactured in 08/2005. I converted it to a wood pellet pot several years ago. It worked great all last winter, tried to fire it up Friday and the control board on/off light goes out, #2 red light on feed blinks (vacuum problem I saw somewhere), after the pellets which I ignite with alcohol gel burn out, the stove goes out, the room fan will come on for a while, but the control panel never takes over.
I have cleaned everything I know how to clean, which are the two exhaust ports on either side of the burn pot, removed the burn pot and tried to clean those little slits behind that, took the metal baffle plate off the top on the inside and vacuumed that out, took the stove pipe off the back and attempted to vacuum out the inside of the fan. I bought this house four years ago, so I have kind of learned as I went. The number two blinking red light has always done that even when the stove was working, It seemed like once it got hot enough the blowers would turn on and that would go down to number one, and that was that. I have read in a couple places that there's supposed to be another clean out behind the ash bin, my stove doesn't have that. This is not my primary source of heat, but it is our backup as we can run it off the generator in case of a power failure. Just getting through with a blizzard here, it was forty below this morning with the wind chill so it would be kind of nice if this was working. I have a vacuum switch coming, just guessing maybe that might be the problem. We have a Comfort Bilt HP50S in the garage, So I do know that these things need to be kept clean or they will not function properly. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I have cleaned everything I know how to clean, which are the two exhaust ports on either side of the burn pot, removed the burn pot and tried to clean those little slits behind that, took the metal baffle plate off the top on the inside and vacuumed that out, took the stove pipe off the back and attempted to vacuum out the inside of the fan. I bought this house four years ago, so I have kind of learned as I went. The number two blinking red light has always done that even when the stove was working, It seemed like once it got hot enough the blowers would turn on and that would go down to number one, and that was that. I have read in a couple places that there's supposed to be another clean out behind the ash bin, my stove doesn't have that. This is not my primary source of heat, but it is our backup as we can run it off the generator in case of a power failure. Just getting through with a blizzard here, it was forty below this morning with the wind chill so it would be kind of nice if this was working. I have a vacuum switch coming, just guessing maybe that might be the problem. We have a Comfort Bilt HP50S in the garage, So I do know that these things need to be kept clean or they will not function properly. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
